US manufacturing continues to shrug off euro-zone woes

Manufacturing surveys for December suggest the US economy continued to resist the slowdown in Europe right up to the end of 2011. Although US growth is likely to slow this year, we expect this divergence between the US and Europe to persist throughout 2012 and 2013.

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